You pity them for their immodest behavior in a public place.

But most of them have no other place to meet.

And it is not difficult to comprehend that clandestine appointments in dark corners as a rule do not conduce to proper behavior.

Most of the women you see on park benches are domestic servants.

Some of them, it is safe to assume, work in New York's Fifth Avenue, or in mansions on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.
[Illustration: AN UNTHOUGHT-OF PHASE OF THE SERVANT QUESTION] The social opportunity of the domestic worker is limited to the park bench, the cheap theater, the summer excursion boat, and the dance hall.
Hardly ever does a settlement club admit a domestic to membership; rarely does a working girls' society or a Young Women's Christian Association circle bid her welcome.